horror movies
Pint-Sized Terror: Remembering the ’80’s Obsession With Tiny Monster Movies
Horror has always tended to move in cycles and follow certain trends. The slasher obsession of the early 1980’s and the recent zombie phenomenon are two of the most obvious examples. But there ...
Script to Pieces: Mark Romanek’s The Wolfman
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes...
“Boy, Do I Hate Being Right All the Time” Why Dr. Loomis Remains One of Horror’s Greatest Heroes
Halloween is one of the few modern horror franchises to bring back its protagonist almost as many times as its antagonist. For a long time, all the way up until Donald Pleasance’s passing, Dr. ...
Twenty Horror Movies You Wouldn’t Want to Watch with Your Gran
As a hard-core horror movie fan I have many friends and family members that do not get my desire for, as they call it, “messed-up” movies. While I can get away with sneaking in a little ...
Four of the Strangest Non-Cronenberg Body Horror Films
David Cronenberg is undeniably the master of body horror, so much that the sub-genre has become synonymous with his name, even if he hasn’t directed a movie of this type in years. He will alway...
New on Netflix: June 16th, 2017
New on Netflix is a weekly feature here at Wicked Horror where we take a look at the latest additions to everyone’s favorite streaming service. It can be tough sifting through all those horror ...
How Pumpkinhead Became a Cult Classic
Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead is one of the most underrated monster movies of all time. It took a couple of years after completion for it to gain an audience, and then a few years after that for i...
The Fog is an Impressive and Under-Appreciated Ghost Story!
John Carpenter found incredible success with Halloween, but it was not a success right away. He moved on to the next project believing that the film had been a flop. The early reviews and the early ti...
Ginger Snaps is an Essential Feminist Horror Movie
Through most of history, werewolf stories and films were pretty aggressively male. They were about secret urges, hidden primal instincts. The Wolf Man is a great example of this. Larry Talbot is a man...